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Hosted by Antoine Melon and Gideon Lask · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 16 episodes
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Every great restaurant or hotel has two lives. There’s the one the guests see — polished, calm, seamless. And then there’s the one behind the scenes — fast decisions, quiet compromises, and moments where everything could tip either way. NO RESERVATION is about that second life. It’s about what really happens when service is live, the room is full, and there’s nowhere to hide — told by the people who carry that responsibility every day. Hosted by Antoine Melon, who has spent his career building and running hospitality businesses, and Gideon Lask, who sees it from the other side and notices what most guests never articulate. Each episode is a conversation with the people who hold standards — General Managers, operators, leaders. Not for headlines. Not for promotion. Just an honest conversation. Because most of what matters in hospitality…<br
Antoine Melon and Gideon Lask hosts NO RESERVATION - The Hospitality Podcast, a business show with 16 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Some people build brands. Some people shape entire categories. Claire Warner has spent twenty-five years doing both — while asking a harder question: what does hospitality actually do for the people in t
Send us Fan Mail Some people build businesses. Some people build culture. Neena Jivraj Stevenson has spent her career doing both. From Deloitte and Harvard Business School to Queensway and The Sloane Club, she's helped s
Send us Fan Mail Some people build restaurants. Some people host events. Stephen Chenery has spent more than thirty years bringing people together. From running restaurants in California, Chelsea and the City of London t
Send us Fan Mail Some people spend their careers following trends. Some seem to arrive just before them. Sean Coogan has spent the last fifteen years around some of hospitality’s most talked-about openings. From Boundary
Send us Fan Mail Some people build restaurants. Some people build hotels. Clémence de Crecy has spent nearly three decades helping people discover them. From Evolv, Aqua & Gordon Ramsay Restaurants and luxury resorts acr
Send us Fan Mail Some people build hospitality around service. Some build it around status. Sue Walter has spent her career building it around people. From The Hospital Club and Coppa Club to Maggie & Rose and The Roof G
Send us Fan Mail Some people run restaurants. Others define service. Paulo de Tarso has spent his career focused on the craft of hospitality itself. From The Wolseley and Scott’s to opening Bar Boulud London under Daniel
Send us Fan Mail Some places rely on spectacle. Others rely on precision. Murray Ward has spent his career focused on something quieter — consistency. From Soho Farmhouse and Thyme to Public House Group, he’s worked acro
Send us Fan Mail Some people run great venues. Some people build great teams. Alex Ghalleb has spent his career doing both. From Soho House and Grind to Charlotte’s Group, Ennismore and now Five Graces Hospitality, he’s
Send us Fan Mail Some people run great rooms. Others go on to build them. Matthew Maynard has done both. From Riding House Café — one of the busiest openings of its time — to global scale at Nikki Beach, and now leading
Send us Fan Mail Some people run rooms. Some people build brands. And some understand how the two shape each other. Alex Field has spent his career working at that intersection — across Moët Hennessy, Six Senses, LVMH, R
Send us Fan Mail Every great restaurant, hotel or club has two lives — the one you see, and the one that actually runs it. In this episode, Antoine Melon and Gideon Lask turn the lens on themselves — sharing how they see
Send us Fan Mail Some people in hospitality chase the spotlight. Others hold it steady. Today, we’re joined by someone who’s been doing that for more than thirty years. Will Smith has worked at every level of British hos
Send us Fan Mail Some restaurants are quiet and precise. Some feel like theatre. Some feel like a party that somehow never loses control. Today, we’re joined by someone who runs that kind of energy — at scale. Gianmarco
Send us Fan Mail There’s a moment in hospitality when you stop just running a room… and start seeing the whole operation. Today, we’re joined by someone who has lived both sides of that shift. Jamie Kerr began as a manag
Send us Fan Mail Some people arrive in hospitality through management. Some arrive through the floor. Today, we’re joined by someone who has built his career step by step — service by service — through some of the most d
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